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| Date | Ship | Captain or expedition leader | Type | Tonnage | Notes |
| 1768-1771 | Endeavour | Captain Cook | Barque | 366 | Built as a collier, wide beam, shallow draught. Circumnavigation Antarctica. |
| 1819 | Williams | William Smith | Brig | Whaler: discovered the South Shetland Islands. | |
| 1819-1821 | Vostok
Mirny |
Thadeus Bellingshausen | Sloop | 500
500 |
Circumnavigation of Antarctica. (Russia not back in the south until the 1950s) |
| 1821 | Dove
James Monroe |
George Powell
Nathaniel Palmer |
Sloop
Shallop |
Joint discovery of South Orkney Islands. | |
| 1822-24 | Jane
Beaufoy |
James Weddell | Brig
Sloop |
160
65 |
Furthest South at the time: 74°15'S in the Weddell Sea. Almost 100 years before another ship reached so far South in the Weddell Sea, although Bruce came within a few miles. |
| 1830-32 | Tula
Lively |
John Biscoe | Brig
Cutter |
Financed by the Enderby brothers. Discovered Enderby Land. First sighting of eastern Antarctic. Lively lost in Antarctic. | |
| 1835-1842 | Vincennes | John Wilkes | Six ships | Discovered Wilkes Land. | |
| 1837-1840 | Astrolabe
Zelee |
Dumont d'Urville | Two brigs | Surveyed part of the Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered Terre Adelie. Brought back large natural history collection. | |
| 1839-1843 | Erebus
Terror |
James C Ross | Two bomb ketches | 372
326 |
Explored area of Ross Sea.. Discovered transantarctic mountains, two active volcanoes. Both ships survived a serious collision. Both later lost in the Arctic. |
| 1872-76 | Challenger | George Nares | Corvette | 1500 | First steamship to cross the Antarctic Circle. First world oceanographic expedition. |
| 1892-93 | Balaena | Captain Fairweather | Barque | 417 | Took Bruce to the Antarctic (with whalers Active, Diana and Pole Star). |
| 1894-95 | Antarctic
Jason |
Captain Kristensen
Captain Carl Larsen |
Barque
Schooner |
226 | Whaling expedition. Met the Dundee whaling expedition in the Antarctic. Used by Nansen. First crossing of Greenland. |
| 1897-99 | Belgica | Captain Adrien Gerlech | Barque | 244 | First to overwinter in the Antarctic. Roald Amundsen was aboard as mate. |
| 1898-1900 | Southern Cross | Carsten Borchgrevink | Barque | 521 | British expedition. First party to overwinter at Cape Adare, Victoria Land. |
| 1901-03 | Discovery | Captain Robert F Scott | Barque | 485 | Built in Dundee. Used for oceanographic survey, 1925. Now at Discovery Point, Dundee. |
| 1901-03 | Gauss | Erich von Drygalski | Schooner | 721 | Discovered Wilhelm II Land. Beset in the ice for many months. |
| 1901-03 | Antarctic | Otto Nordenskjold
Captain Carl Larsen |
Barque | 226 | Beset and sunk in the Weddell Sea. Three separate parties over-wintered. All rescued by Argentinian ship Uruguay. Larsen set up whaling base on South Georgia. |
| 1902-04 | Scotia | William Speirs Bruce | Barque | 400 | Was originally the Norwegian whaler Hekla. Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. |
| 1903-05 | Francais | Jean Charcot | Barque | Explored area west of Antarctic Peninsula. | |
| 1907-09 | Nimrod | Ernest Shackleton | Barquentine | 200 | Land journey made to within 160km (100 miles) of South Pole. |
| 1908-1910 | Pourquoi Pas? | Jean Charcot | Barquentine | Lost off Iceland in 1934 with Charcot aboard. | |
| 1910-11 | Fram | Roald Amundsen | Schooner | 402 | Built for Nansen's drift in the Arctic, fitted with diesel engine in 1910, now in Oslo. |
| 1910-12 | Terra Nova | Captain Robert F Scott | Barque | 749 | Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1893-96, relief of Discovery 1903, second Scott expedition 1910. Sank 1943. |
| 1914-17 | Endurance | Ernest Shackleton | Barque | 350 | Transantarctic expedition. Beset in ice and sunk. Ship's boats to Elephant Island. One boat to South Georgia. |
| 1914-17 | Aurora | Captain Aeneas Macintosh | Barquentine | 386 | Mawson expedition, 1911-14. Landed Shackleton's Ross Sea party and later rescued them. |
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